{
  "id": 15628587,
  "title": "PlayStation founder Ken Kutaragi says discs became \"metaphor for 'owning' games\", and that upset at their discontinuation is a \"mentality issue\"",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/playstation-founder-ken-kutaragi-says-discs-became-metaphor-for",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-19T16:07:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Eurogamer",
    "slug": "eurogamer",
    "url": "https://www.eurogamer.net/ken-kutaragi-playstation-discs"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Ken Kutaragi, the founder of PlayStation and architect of the first three PlayStation consoles, has said that people being upset about Sony's discontinuation of game discs is probably a \"mentality issue\". He understands it, he noted, but that doesn't make it \"economically reasonable\" for Sony to keep printing them. Read more",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}